How it works

Every item receives a unique identifier that allows citation of individual items

Your data publication receives a DOI

Linked Open Data approaches tie your content to museum collections and other research data

Creative Commons licenses facilitate reuse

All Open Context data publications are preserved with the California Digital Library

Why Open Context

Your research data reflect your expertise and intellectual interests. Treating data only as files to archive can limit the impact of your ideas. Open Context goes beyond the archive by richly integrating the totality of your analyses, maps, media, and journals together so they can support your interpretations. This unlocks and highlights meaningful information and relationships in your data and links your data to the wider world.